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Ode to Raven
By JH Sayyar
1
O Raven, you desert nightingale, loneliness lark
With large a bill crying Ka, Ka, Ka in trees
Ripping garbage and wire coats for nest, hark
Making twigs conifers like fire raining worries
March to May your breeding in spring time
Tracing new areas for colonizing for generation
Laying eggs in cuckoos’ nest you deceive
You are intelligent in committing a crime
The cuckoo in the nest issues with elation
Collecting rags and children edibles to grieve
2
You bold and clever; top secret your skill
Your nest in trees standing in my Lady’s board
You eat my Rose’s left over, you sing her will
All grains of foods in the nest you cleverly hoard
Day time you guard flying around the seed-bed
At night you vigil to protect its black race
Your dark grayish plumage shines like stars
I see my Lady’s bangles, rags and silky thread
In your nest O Raven, you steel my Lady’s grace
I request to leave the nest; fly to heaven; not par
3
O Raven, come to me; let me see in your eyes
My Lady’s night doings store in your balls
I cannot listen to her wail and her cries
Make your nest in the lawn of my halls
Come carrying her broken bangles in the beak
Manna for me, for a long time have not seen
Her eyes, coral breast and her silky thighs
Weeping day and night makes dull my cheek
Silver in hair, gait bowing down eyes green
Loneliness thorns injure heart with bitter sighs
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